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Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.
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the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.
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Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva.""Erika, I'm a dried up husk.""Don't say that, Mary.
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You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.
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What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.
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Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal
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Most of them students from the nearby University of Dayton...
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Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self
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Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
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